Oasis Tropical Stairs: Connecting Communities

expanding design practices, Middle Density, Politics and economics, Project, Southern Coexistences, Territory and mobility, Urban Lab Medellín-Berlin, Urban Paradigms

Active Public Spaces, Agency of Urban Organization, Collaborative Architecture, Collaborative work, Collective garden, Colombia, Colors, Concrete, Culture, Empowering society, Inclusivity, Medellin, Political & Economic Approach, Project, Public coexistences, Slums, Solar Energy, Southern Coexistences, Stairs, Territorial Approach

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Through the effort of associations and its own inhabitants, Moravia -one of the aforetime most conflictive zones in the city of Medellín, Colombia- has gone from a slum to a safe area. Urban Lab Medellín-Berlin is working on the cleanse and adequacy of the district to make it a better place. In its first stage, the studio empowered the citizens to adapt a stairs that, although used daily by thousands of people, were still in poor condition.